APCA Views & News

This post is dedicated to supporting the office of the National Industry Scholarship Program 2017 - for the development of women across all industries. Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders…

Merric Foley, our Policy Manager, was on the ground in Canberra for the 2017 Budget, which contained a number of measures directly affecting the payments industry. Of particular interest is new funding for Treasury to undertake an independent review into the…

As part of the recent National Online Retailers Association (NORA) Leader Lunch Series, Australian Payments Network CEO Dr. Leila Fourie spoke about how technological advancements and consumer expectations are changing the future of retail payments. Australia is fast becoming a less-cash…

During the first week of April 2017, our Emerging Technology Lead, Nick Cliff, took part in the first meeting of the international technical committee on standards. The ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and electronic distributed ledger technologies met at the International Convention…

We were pleased to welcome many members of the payments community at our Open Data discussion earlier this month. David Beardmore, Commercial Director of the Open Data Institute (ODI) shared insights from the ODI’s work on the UK’s Open Banking…